🌨️🥶❄️🌡️ Been reading a lot of purely ignorant responses to TX tweets on power outages, etc.
1. Homes ARE insulated.
2. We DO drip & even small stream the water pipes. We do cover outdoor faucets w/ insulated covers.
Can't drip or small stream the water pipes when the water is shut off because equipment @ treatment plants freezes or due to numerous water main breaks.
3. When one loses whole house heat & temp is below 20 degrees w/wind chill is 0 to -20 degrees ... EVERYTHING...
EVERYTHING FREEZES... pipes, hot water tanks, stored water & food
People DO shut off water supply to homes. Unfortunately by the time problem is known, even that is often not done soon enough. Chit happens!